Can sound be used as a therapeutic treatment? While it remains to be a generally unorthodox idea in allopathic medicine, it is far from new. Throughout human history, ancient cultures venerated the act of creating sounds and strongly believed that specific resonant frequencies can produce healing effects. Ancient mythologies looked at sound not merely as pleasurable entertainment but also as a therapeutically, and ontologically, vital energetic force.
Sound is vibration in space and time. Though we can’t see it, everything in the material world vibrates at a frequency. The idea that targeted frequencies can have a resonant effect on us, physically and psychologically, is not as outlandish as it may first sound. Doctors and researchers have conducted many scientific studies in recent years pointing toward the beneficial healing effects of certain frequencies. If music and sound have this incredible potential, then how are their effects being used for positive, or negative, in the modern world?
